Doug Liman: “We’re not making a biopic.”
Apparently some pilots died during the filming, too.
EDIT: I just got to the part where Tom mentions it.
Iran-Contra: an actual scandal. The Clintons: an actual American crime family.
Contras did train in the U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/09/world/first-group-of-the-contras-completes-florida-training.html
Saw this yesterday and enjoyed it. It wasn’t an amazing film, but I thought it was fun. Looking forward to listening to the podcast.
I was about half-way through this movie before I realized that Barry Seal was a horrible person, and I had gotten charmed by Tom Cruise into liking him.